Remove Special Characters from Permalinks Pro is a fast, SEO-focused WordPress plugin that cleans and standardizes your URLs automatically. It removes special characters, accents, emojis, and extra symbols from slugs to create clean, readable, and Google-friendly permalinks. Ideal for blogs, WooCommerce stores, and multilingual sites.
- Automatically removes special characters from post, page, and product slugs
- Converts accented letters to plain ASCII for cleaner URLs
- Strips emojis, symbols, punctuation, and extra whitespace
- Supports posts, pages, CPTs, taxonomies, and WooCommerce products
- Preserves readability while enforcing consistent slug rules
- Real-time cleaning when you save or update content
- Bulk process existing content to fix legacy slugs
- Customizable character whitelist and replacement rules
- Smart hyphen handling to prevent double dashes
- Multilingual friendly with transliteration for many locales
- Keeps URLs lowercase for best SEO practices
- Optional stop-word trimming to shorten long slugs
- Works with popular SEO plugins and major themes
- Lightweight, no bloat, and optimized for performance
- Safe mode with redirects to preserve existing links